Gingrich Cashes In With Casino Check Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and a possible presidential candidate, just started a new political group, and its most generous initial funding comes from a source that conservative Americans may not appreciate. âGingrich’s American Solutions for Winning the Future reported to the Internal Revenue Service that it collected a $1 million check from Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon G. Adelson shortly after the November elections.â (The Washington Post)Senators Meet with Chertoff to Discuss Immigration Raid In the wake of an immigration raid earlier this month that led to the arrests of 1,297 illegal immigrants working at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Utah, senators from the affected states had a closed-door meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday. Afterwards, the senators said that âthe raid exposed flaws in the federal government and in a program designed to help employers screen for illegal immigrants.â (AP)
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